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DeClarke

@declarke.bsky.social
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Retired software engineer. Writer. Canadian. Card carrying member of the Reality Based Community. My politics can involve labels and jargon at times, but in the end it all comes down to two very simple ideas: bullying is bad, and sharing is good.

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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Well it’s been a long, longtime since I’ve checked in. I lost my partner (sudden and unexpected natural-causes death) and have been in semi-seclusion for a year of grieving and getting back on my feet again. I have no idea if anyone is still following me since I’ve been dormant for so long.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.
Steve Bannon makes a Nazi salute at the end of his speech at CPAC
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
not a passing grade I fear
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
maybe they knew very well what they were doing. maybe Trump has a buyer lined up for some US nukes that are gonna disappear mysteriously in the general chaos.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Some light reading :-) for y'all. Five books for this annus horribilis. If you like book reviews, maybe more to come.
open.substack.com
Five Books for 2025
maybe you'd better read them before they're banned...
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
So not holding grifters and scammers accountable is now official policy?
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I still call that low-poly asset the Meinkraftwagen
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
one thing the trumpist electoral victory has revealed is that there are very few brave people and many cowards in America, 'home of the brave'.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
One of the most important websites in America right now.
isthisacoup.com
Is this a coup? Home of the Coup-o-meter
Prevention is the best medicine: Get background on coups, how they happen in a democracy, and what we can do to stop one.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm cussing way more than I ever have before.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
love & hugs to you brave Argentino/as standing up to these warped deficient bullies. may his reign be short.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm in fkn *Canada* and having a panic attack.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
there's reasons why Russian humour is so dark and oblique.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I am seriously worried that his fanboi team has introduced some kind of self destruct into the trez system for blackmail/ransomware purposes.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
'Gaza-lago'... jfc, even making fun of this utter fuckery doesn't take the edge off the horror/grief/rage... We are in the presence of pure evil. I feel physically ill.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
party of 'freedom' at work, ladies and gentlemen.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Jamie raskin for prez...
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
this is starting to look like the sack of Rome or the conquista. the barbarians are well inside the gates.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
we are rapidly advancing from coup to pogrom.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
coup in progress. this is so fkn surreal.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
and fetterman crossed the line to swing it, or so I read. shameful.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
coup, the word is coup.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
every form of barbarism is resurgent...
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
yes
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I think it's called 'throwing the fight'...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This project tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education, or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information. Read more about the tracker and related... Or contribute to the database. #science climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Sc...
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Silencing Science Tracker | Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
hmmm Gargle?
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
ummm 2 yrs?
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
fkn stenographers to power. perfidious NYT.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/01/2025
WHO DID THIS!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/01/2025
Revelations about the role Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.
newrepublic.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Once Pitched a Deadly Human Vaccine Experiment
Revelations about the role he played in a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa keep getting worse.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
samizdata welcome to the new Stalinism
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
which would require (a) teeth and (b) a spine, so... unlikely at this point.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Grand Plan for the Reorganisation of Nature, or something like that.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Commissar Vanishes.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Well that's some Stalinist prose right there.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It appears to be full mask off time. Welcome to Russia.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Why those four? why singled out? what did they ever do to the Snowflake in Chief?
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
kid gloves interview imho, shame on the nyt for platforming & normalising this unhinged weasel...
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
we fkn told you he was a career con artist, but would you listen oh dear me no. you wuz had.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
tout se tait, l'ennemi dans l'ombre se repose on nous a dit ce soir que Paris s'est rendu je n'oublierai jamais les lilas ni les roses ni les deux amours que nous avons perdu
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
tax the hell out of plutocrats. limitarian economics now...
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Zuck's going full collaborationist. Shame on him.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
then they never did it out of conviction in the first place.
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DeClarke @declarke.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
in the finest tradition of real journalism. huge respect. I donated to pro publica, dear blueskyers -- have you?
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